Welcome to the assessment department of the Buses WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Buses or the people of Buses. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Buses}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Bus transport articles by quality and Bus transport articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
Frequently asked questions
- See also the general assessment FAQ
- 1. What is the purpose of the article ratings?
- The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is also utilized by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content. Please note, however, that these ratings are primarily intended for the internal use of the project, and do not necessarily imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.
- 2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
- Just add {{WikiProject Buses}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
- 3. Someone put a {{WikiProject Buses}} template on an article, but it doesn't seem to be within the project's scope. What should I do?
- Because of the large number of articles we deal with, we occasionally make mistakes and add tags to articles that shouldn't have them. If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the project talk page (or directly with the person who tagged the article).
- 4. Who can assess articles?
- Any member of WikiProject Buses is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Editors who are not participants in this project are also welcome to assess articles, but should defer to consensus within the project in case of procedural disputes.
- 5. How do I rate an article?
- Check the quality scale and select the level that best matches the state of the article; then, follow the instructions below to add the rating to the project banner on the article's talk page. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.
- 6. Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?
- Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
- 7. What if I don't agree with a rating?
- You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.
- 8. Aren't the ratings subjective?
- Yes, they are somewhat subjective, but it's the best system we've been able to devise. If you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!
- 9. What if I have a question not listed here?
- If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can go to the main project discussion page.
If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.
Instructions
Quality assessments
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Buses}} project banner on its talk page:
Quality scale
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Buses}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject Buses|importance=???}}
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance bus transport articles) | Top | |
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance bus transport articles) | High | |
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance bus transport articles) | Mid | |
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance bus transport articles) | Low | |
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance bus transport articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance bus transport articles) | ??? |
Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of buses.
Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.
Requesting an assessment
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.
The following were not yet rated:
- There are currently no articles here that need rating, but please feel free to rate any of these articles. Add to this list as you see fit.
The following are listed for re-rating:
- Bus Services Act 2017 - Article has been expanded since last rating
Assessment log
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
June 16, 2022
Renamed
- East Lancs Myllennium Lolyne renamed to East Lancs Lolyne.
Reassessed
- Gudivada bus station (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Sunsundegui (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
June 15, 2022
Assessed
- MOBIpeople (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
June 14, 2022
Renamed
- Carnegie station (PAAC) renamed to Carnegie station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit).
- East Liberty station (PAAC) renamed to East Liberty station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit).
- Homewood station (PAAC) renamed to Homewood station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit).
- Roslyn station (PAAC) renamed to Roslyn station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit).
- Wilkinsburg station (PAAC) renamed to Wilkinsburg station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit).
Assessed
- Module:Adjacent stations/Pittsburgh Regional Transit (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Caetano City Gold (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Carnegie station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- East Liberty station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Homewood station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Mellor Maxima (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Mellor Orion (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Roslyn station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Wilkinsburg station (Pittsburgh Regional Transit) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Module:Adjacent stations/PAAC (talk) removed.
- Category:RapidRide templates (talk) removed.
June 13, 2022
Renamed
Reassessed
- Handy Bus (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Haymarket bus station, Leicester (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Lowland Scottish (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Scottish Transport Group (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Killa Saifullah bus crash (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)